This advice might apply to written applications too. In college I was applying for a scholarship, in its first year, in which they picked one recipient from eac

This advice might apply to written applications too. In college I was applying for a scholarship, in its first year, in which they picked one recipient from each state. It was a long application. The very last page was the question, "Is there any other information about you or your family you would like to share?". I thought this was an odd question. Maybe they wanted some information about special hardships or something. I instead wrote a table that had the height and weight of every member of my family. I told my parents about the application and my mother was so mad at me. She told me I threw away my chance at the scholarship. It turns out however that I got the scholarship. Not only that, some of the recipients were invited to the capitol building in DC if they lived relatively close. A senator came up to me at the luncheon and told me she loved my answer. It also turned out that they gave some extra scholarships beyond one per state. It turns out my state got one of those extra scholarships. I suspect maybe I got the scholarship only because of my smart ass answer at the end.